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OFFSHORE PETROLEUM AND GREENHOUSE GAS STORAGE ACT 2006 - SECT 183A

Grant of petroleum production licence as a result of a change to the boundary of the coastal waters of a State or Territory

Scope

  (1)   This section applies if:

  (a)   a fixed - term State/Territory petroleum production title has been granted by a State or the Northern Territory on the basis that an area (the relevant area ) is within the coastal waters of the State or Territory; and

  (b)   as a result of a change to the boundary of the coastal waters of the State or Territory, the relevant area:

  (i)   ceases to be within the coastal waters of the State or Territory; and

  (ii)   falls within the offshore area of the State or Territory; and

  (c)   either:

  (i)   the conditions set out in subsection   (2) are satisfied; or

  (ii)   the conditions set out in subsection   (3) are satisfied; and

  (d)   there are one or more section   33 blocks (the relevant section   33 blocks ) that:

  (i)   correspond to the section   33 blocks that were covered by the fixed - term State/Territory petroleum production title immediately before the change; and

  (ii)   are in the offshore area of the State or Territory; and

  (iii)   are not the subject of a variation under section   267A.

  (2)   The conditions mentioned in subparagraph   (1)(c)(i) are:

  (a)   one or more, but not all, of the section   33 blocks that were covered by the fixed - term State/Territory petroleum production title immediately before the change are in the relevant area; and

  (b)   the title subsequently ceases to be in force at the same time (the relevant time ):

  (i)   as to all of the section   33 blocks that were covered by the title immediately before the change and that are in the coastal waters of the State or Territory; and

  (ii)   otherwise than as the result of the cancellation or surrender of the title.

  (3)   The conditions mentioned in subparagraph   (1)(c)(ii) are:

  (a)   all of the section   33 blocks that were covered by the fixed - term State/Territory petroleum production title immediately before the change are in the relevant area; and

  (b)   the title subsequently ceases to be in force at the same time (the relevant time ):

  (i)   as to all of the section   33 blocks that were covered by the title immediately before the change; and

  (ii)   otherwise than as the result of the cancellation or surrender of the title.

Grant of licence

  (4)   The Joint Authority is taken:

  (a)   to have granted the holder of the fixed - term State/Territory petroleum production title a petroleum production licence over the relevant section   33 blocks; and

  (b)   to have done so immediately after the relevant time mentioned in whichever of subsection   (2) or (3) is applicable.

Note:   For the duration of the petroleum production licence, see item   5 of the table in subsection   165(1).

Deemed section   33 block

  (5)   If, after the change to the boundary of the coastal waters of the State or Territory:

  (a)   a part of a section   33 block that was covered by the fixed - term State/Territory petroleum production title immediately before the change is in the coastal waters of the State or Territory; and

  (b)   the remaining part of the section   33 block is in the offshore area of the State or Territory;

then, for the purposes of this section (other than this subsection), each of those parts is taken to constitute, and to have always constituted, a section   33 block.

Definitions

  (6)   In this section:

" section 33 block" means:

  (a)   a block constituted as provided by section   33; or

  (b)   if a graticular section is wholly within the area that was covered by the fixed - term State/Territory petroleum production title--the graticular section; or

  (c)   if a part only of a graticular section is within the area that was covered by the fixed - term State/Territory petroleum production title--that part of the graticular section.

Note:   See also subsection   (5).


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